Please join Tricycle Gardens for our Greenhouse Ribbon Cutting Celebration on Thursday May 1oth, 2012 at 6:00pm. at our headquarters 2107 Jefferson Avenue!
Tricycle Gardens
May 3, 2012
Lewis Ginter Plant Sale
Please join us as we partner with Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens once again for their annual plant sale! This is one of our favorite events of the year, and it always proves to be a great time! We will have a booth all three days where we will be selling our local seedlings! Be sure to come say hi!
Time are as follows:
Thursday, May 3: 1 – 6 p.m.
Friday, May 4: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday, May 5: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
April 28, 2012
Shape the Greenhouse!
Join Tricycle Gardens & HandsOn Greater Richmond for a productive day at the headquarters for Tricycle Gardens in Church Hill. They’ve just finished building their new solar greenhouse on site, so expect lots of greenhouse duties. There will also be jobs for compost work, mulching, filling planters, and various building projects. Together we can continue to grow healthy food, healthy communities and a healthy economy!
Free and ample street parking. Depending on the heat in June and August, the hours may change to 8-12.
Wear clothes to get dirty in and bring garden/work gloves if you have them. If you have any hand tools for simple building projects, go ahead and bring those too.
To attend this volunteer event, you must sign up through the HandsOn Greater Richmond website by clicking here.
April 22, 2012
Love Your Mother: Earth Day at Ellwood Thompson’s
We’ve teamed with our friends at Ellwood Thompson’s for their Love Your Mother: Earth Day celebration. We will have special give-aways for this event and our local and organic seedlings are currently available for sale! Come enjoy Earth Day with our favorite local market!
April 21, 2012
Earth Day Festival in Manchester
Be sure to stop by our booth at the Earth Day Festival in Manchester! The day includes three scheduled tours at Richmond’s premiere urban farm at 9th and Bainbridge Streets. The tours will be held at 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm. And we’ve teamed with two great organizations for the Manchester event! We are working with RideRichmond for a group bike ride to the farm for our 4pm tour, and the BlueSky Fund to provide seeds and seedlings for children to experience the magic of growing their own food! Be sure to check our their booth!
Hope to see you there!
April 20, 2012
Rams Community Bazaar
If you are on or by VCU’s Monroe Park Campus, be sure to stop by theRams Community Bazaar Earth Day event. We will have a booth with volunteer information, stickers, patches, and seed starters for sale! Come by and say ‘Hi’ to our group of VCU interns!
March 28, 2012
Permaculture Work Day
Come join us at our bi-monthly work sessions! The second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 1-4pm we invite volunteers to join us to learn about Permaculture and help us maintain our garden at the Science Museum of Virginia!
March 24, 2012
Carver Community Garden Work Day
We will be working in and around the garden to clean the area, remove weeds or garbage, preparing the garden for the spring planting season and helping keep up the local church grounds. Please join us!
HandsOn RVA Urban Farm Workday
Join Tricycle Gardens & HandsOn Greater Richmond for a productive day of hands-on work at our urban farm – learn new skills, meet new friends, and get a little dirty! Activities can include farm irrigation, compost management, pruning and weeding in our herb & flower garden, harvesting crops, maintaining crops that have been planted, weed maintenance, and seed transplanting. This will be the first in a series of weekend volunteer days coordinated through HandsOn RVA.
All volunteers who plan to attend must be registered through the HandsOn RVA website. Please feel free to email learn@tricyclegardens with any questions.
March 14, 2012
Permaculture Work Day
Come join us at our bi-monthly work sessions! The second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 1-4pm we invite volunteers to join us to learn about Permaculture and help us maintain our garden at the Science Museum of Virginia!
